I like testing GUI clients, but I find building them incredibly tedious.
Low-key glad that they're getting so easy to automate, now, because I can write all the logic up and can then say, "And now build me a Svelt client for that. With pink sparkles."
Then I just have to test it and fix it, which is the fun part.
What I don't get the point of, to be honest, is to have AI generate some random code. I'm very particular and usually have some vision I'm trying to create.
GitHub is going to quickly go from being a collection of dead scriptkiddie repos to being a collection of dead AI-generated repos. Throw-away code.
People who didn't actually care enough about the content, to give it some thought before generating, probably won't touch the result afterward, either.
It's basically a repeat of the HTML generator fad. They told us that making everything WYSIWYG would result in everyone on the planet building their own webpages. So easy! 1-2-3!
LOL
Hardly anyone wants to build their own webpage and they usually abandon the effort rather quickly.
Same with self-publishing. Did it turn everyone into an author? Nope. Most people can't write, yo.
Mid-term, I see something similar to what we saw with HTML generators, where the clueless generate sloppy code that doesn't really do what they want, and then they go to someone with an actual clue and annoy them by asking them to fix it.
And then the dev has the problem that there's now an existing prototype that the customer is emotionally attached to, and that they expect to see finished and maintained.
But it's a crappy prototype.
there was a very successful wave of wordpress style, wiki style developments pre-centralization where anyone could use the gui to make a unique site tailored to their purposes.. it was powerful and popular for non devs.. i think we can bring that back, and with discovery added in this time..
That's what we're betting on.
Using AI to increase the customization, navigation, and implementation possibilities, rather than just saying, "Think some random shit up. Write it in a sentence."
